Starting with the rocky closing of the beloved but troubled Ingrid’s Bakery—still one of the best eateries I have ever been to, honestly—I have had a not-so-good culinary relationship with most of the restaurants on NW 36th, from around May to Western.
I was just about to write off that section of town, when TLO big-wig Patrick told me he wanted me to give the new-ish Korean restaurant Han Jan a college try. I was more than a little dubious.
Situated on the lamentable ashes of the old Ingrid’s, Han Jan Korean Kitchen & Pocha, 3701 N. Youngs Blvd., is a wholly hip update to the neighborhood, offering the “late-night pocha experience to Oklahoma” with their “sizzling bulgogi, crispy Korean fried wings, and ice-cold Jinro soju.”
Though suspicious, I was intrigued…